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Hi Team,
can any one is having the Guide for Migrating the VM from one VXrail from another
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Murugan, S
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Hi Team,
can any one is having the Guide for Migrating the VM from one VXrail from another
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Murugan, S
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emc_troy
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November 14th, 2017 08:00
The easiest and simple method is:
Attach shared storage (iSCSI/NFS) to both clusters.
Storage vMotion VM to the shared storage
Unregister VM form Source vCenter
Brouse the Shared storage on Target vCenter, Import VM
Storage vMotion to the Target VSAN.
There are many other ways to do it.
VincentJansen
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November 15th, 2017 04:00
Hi,
Do you use an extended vCenter with two VxRail clusters? Then it's possible to migratie online vm's between the clusters.
Cheers!
Vincent
smurugun
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November 15th, 2017 04:00
Hi Vincent,
can u please elaborate about Extended Vcenter. please provide me if there is any link for configure the same.
i was trying to add one VxRail host to another for migration it is not happening.
Thanks,
Murugan. S
DELL-Naoyuki K
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November 15th, 2017 05:00
See this
https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/05/automating-cross-vcenter-vmotion-xvc-vmotion-between-the-same-different-sso-domain.html
you can vmotion between vxrails without sso integration using this method.
i know this works well.
or you can use RP4VM if you can accept a short down time
VincentJansen
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November 15th, 2017 06:00
Hi Muragan,
Create on one host in cluster 1 a new vmotion vmkernel portgroup in subnet X. Do the same for one host in cluster 2. It's important that both vmotion portgroups are in the same subnet X. Temporarely disable the default vmotion portgroup on these two hosts and enable the new one. Because the name of a vmotion portgroup should be unique choose e.g. vmotion01 en vmotion02. The name doesn't matter for vmotion functionality. Now it's possible to vmotion/storage-vmotion & network-vmotion your vm online to the other cluster. Of course in the source and destionation cluster the same vm guest portgroup-id(vlan) should be available.
If you have enough resources available in both clusters it is wise to vmotion both hosts with the temporarely vmotion kernel portgroups empty before disable the default vmotion vmkernel portgroups. This because the hosts are temporarely isolated from the other hosts in the cluster to vmotion vm's within the same cluster.
When you're finished with migrating the vm's, you can disable the temporarely vmotion vmkernel portgroups and enable the defaults again.
Cheers!
Mhmd_Saad
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November 16th, 2017 05:00
Hi,
Can you elaborate more on the other ways that we can follow for such scenario migrating VMs from one VxRail to another ?
emc_troy
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November 16th, 2017 08:00
Could you please provide a little bit more information about the environment:
The vCenter:
External or internal?
One or two vCenters?
Shared vMotion VLAN?
Bill_Leslie
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November 16th, 2017 08:00
Here is a great overall guide on migrations to vSAN. Similar principals can be applied VxRail to VxRail. Storage and Availability Technical Documents
Mhmd_Saad
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November 18th, 2017 09:00
Hi,
External or internal?
the old VxRail has its internal vCenter which cannot be working as customer supplied vCenter
One or two vCenters?
now i have only one vCnter for th old appliance
Shared vMotion VLAN?
no, separate VLAN for vMotion and vSAN
emc_troy
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November 19th, 2017 12:00
So there will be 2 vCenters, both internal for old and the new VxRails?
Are both environments vSphere 6.0?